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The proportion of women in the incoming class at Waterloo Engineering this fall hit 30 per cent for the first time ever.

As of Nov. 1, the official count date for reporting to the Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development, 474 of 1,580 new undergraduate students in engineering programs were female – exactly reaching the 30-per-cent milestone.

Six researchers at Waterloo Engineering were recently awarded new or renewed Canada Research Chairs worth a total of $4.8 million.

They were among 14 researchers campus-wide to receive $9.7 million through the federal government program, which is designed to promote research excellence and train the next generation of highly skilled people in the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities and social sciences.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited the University of Waterloo today as he talked about Canada’s efforts to stem the brain drain to the United States.

Speaking at the Go North conference on artificial intelligence (AI) in Toronto, Trudeau listed stability, immigration and proximity to a “pipeline of raw talent” as key factors in the growth of the Waterloo-Toronto technology corridor and the local opportunities it offers.

Educating engineers at the University of Waterloo got a major boost today with the announcement of more than $3 million in funding over five years for a variety of immersive, hands-on programs.

Activities organized by the Engineering IDEAs Clinic will range from two-hour, in-class projects such as taking apart internal combustion engines, to two-day, open-ended problems requiring students to work in teams and draw on all of their academic lessons to find solutions.

Work at Waterloo Engineering to make better supercapacitors is paving the way for the quick-charging, energy-storage devices to replace batteries for a growing range of uses.

Michael Pope, a chemical engineering professor who led the research, said supercapacitors with more storage capacity could eventually power everything from consumer electronics to high-powered lasers.

Management Sciences professor Sibel Alumur Alev was recently awarded the Charles ReVelle Rising Star in Location Analysis award at the 2017 INFORMS annual meeting in Houston, Texas.

A Waterloo Engineering spinoff company has received a multi-million dollar injection from Intel Capital.

AdHawk Microsystems, co-founded by engineering alumni, has raised a $4.6 million USD Series A funding that will bring its microscopic eye-tracking technology to virtual reality and augmented reality headsets.

Entrepreneurs with strong ties to Waterloo Engineering claimed both $25,000 awards handed out this week by a provincial organization dedicated to commercializing innovation.

Abdul Rehman, who is CEO of SSIMWAVE Inc. and earned a PhD in electrical engineering at Waterloo, won the Martin Walmsley Award for Entrepreneurship at the annual meeting of the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) in Toronto.

A young woman is scheduled to mark another milestone Saturday on her remarkable journey from a one-room house in India to academic success at the University of Waterloo.

Pampa Dey, who grew up in a remote village where a kerosene lamp was often the only source of light, is to receive a PhD in civil engineering for research on improving the vibration performance of aluminum bridges.

“I never thought I’d come this far in life,” said Dey, a post-doctoral fellow at Waterloo Engineering. “I now know that I can explore anything and achieve my dreams.”

Five projects led by researchers at Waterloo Engineering have been awarded a combined total of almost $14.6 million from a federal fund for research infrastructure.

They are among nine University of Waterloo-led projects to receive more than $17 million through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), which aims to equip researchers and scientists with the best tools and labs.